They have time to improve. Ms Patterson needs to expend the required effort to render her company sufficiently attractive to her former employer so that she can say it was worth her while when she becomes a Googler again following the acquisition.

Don't knock it guys. Compettion is good. I don't like how it lays out the search results though.

Competition is good, but any new search engine has to be better than Google but also deal with the fact that people are used to using Google to search, there has to be a massive incentive to change habits and I don't see it happening any time soon.

I find it amazing how much press this search engine has received...they must have some really good media realtions/public relations people and connections. They were the headline story on cnn.com the other day, and have been in stories throughout world newspapers. So, I tried it out and was thoroughly disappointed as all my search attempts brought up little or no results. As far as I can tell, the biggest difference this engine is hyping up is that they do not retain any private information about their users--no url, no history, etc. I'll give them some time to improve and try them again, but at this point I am not impressed...and, I find their name to be annoying--not sure how to pronounce it or why it was chosen (any vocabulary experts want to help me with that one?).

The word is Irish, according to this article it is supposed to mean knowledge, but as far as I know that is incorrrect. The word for knowledge would be eolas. So far as remember "cúil" means back or behind!.